Patrick Flood

Biography

Dr. Patrick Flood received his PhD degree in Immunology from the University of Chicago in 1980 under the direction of Dr. Hans Schreiber. Research from his dissertation demonstrated a crucial role for T lymphocytes in the protective immune response to skin cancer induced by ultraviolet light, and suggested a new approach to immunotherapy for treating malignant diseases. Dr. Flood completed his postdoctoral fellowship under the direction of the late Dr. Richard Gershon at the Yale University, where he studied immune regulation and cancer. Dr. Flood then received a joint appointment to the faculty in the Department of Pathology at the Yale University School of Medicine and as an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Yale University. Dr. Flood moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1988, where he served on the faculty of Periodontology and Immunology for 25 years. During his time at the University of North Carolina, Dr. Flood served as Program Director and Director of the Pathogenesis Training Track for the Graduate Curriculum in Oral Biology, Associate Dean for Research and Director of the Dental Research Center at the School of Dentistry, Director of the Comprehensive Center for Inflammatory Disorders, and as a member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, and the Neuroscience Graduate Training Program at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Flood began his appointment at the School of Dentistry, University of Alberta in September, 2012.

Research Interest

atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, CD36, cell signaling, epigenetics, inflammasome activation, inflammation, innate immune signaling, macrophage, mouse models of disease, periodontal disease, Toll-like Receptors